There was a time when children could experience life without feeling the need to document it, share it, or turn it into something for others to see. Author Meghan Cox Gurdon returns to the podcast with Free Range Girl, her remarkable memoir of a year spent homesteading with her father in rural Maine at age twelve.
In this rich conversation with Ginny Yurich, Meghan reflects on a childhood filled with extraordinary freedom, genuine risk, and the kind of everyday discomfort that made life's simplest pleasures unforgettable. From riding horses alone through the woods to discovering the incomparable warmth of a kitchen after a freezing winter day, her stories challenge our assumptions about what makes childhood good.
But perhaps most moving is her reflection on what children carry into adulthood: the smallest details, the ordinary gestures, and the moments parents never realize are becoming lifelong memories.
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